Questions tagged [boxes]
Boxes are the underlying representation of two-dimensional forms in notebooks.
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Can you use boxes to create a primed variable?
I want to use a symbol to distinguish $\lambda$ in one coordinate set from another $\lambda$ in another set. Traditionally, we'd use a prime symbol ' to do this (e.g. $\lambda'$). I tried using this ...
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Panel, Pane, and Framed Alignment - Clipped Images, Negative Margins, ContentPadding
I'm trying to tightly wrap some expressions in containers (could be Panel, Pane, maybe Framed...
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Is there a way to print simple roots as Root objects?
I like the typesetting of Root objects. For example:
3-Sqrt[2]+Sqrt[3]//RootReduce
But can I get the same root object with its typesetting for simple roots like ...
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Boxes with autocompletion
Entities have this nice autocompletion of properties:
How do I define autocompletion for my own boxes that behave the same way?
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How to make boxes independent from those cell-formatting options?
In a cell whose LanguageCategory option is "Input", boxes will be syntax-highlighted. Is there any way to diasble such ...
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Is there any way to change the box-formatting behavior thoroughly?
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The box-formmating behavior is affected by the downvalues of the symbol MakeBoxes. But the formatting behavior is not exactly ...
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Custom object display in Dataset using MakeBoxes
The below code defines a couple "objects" in the Mathematica sense using a convention consisting of so-called Q-functions for creating types and data validation, ...
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How do I turn off StandardForm formatting for Piecewise, KroneckerDelta and ConditionalExpression?
I find the StandardForm formatting for Piecewise, KroneckerDelta, and ...
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What's going on with \> and \< in strings? [duplicate]
What exactly do \> and \< do in Mathematica strings (e.g. "ab\>c")?
They ...
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Symbolized, Subscripted Variable Doesn't Look Pretty
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I'm trying to programmatically generate a subscripted variable in a way that makes it appear "pretty". Here is a minimal working example that shows some strange behavior I'm ...
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Boxes Bug in 10.0.2.0
Mathematica 10.0.2.0, specifically:
10.0 for Mac OS X x86 (64-bit) (December 4, 2014)
ReleaseID 10.0.2.0 (5206630, 2014120404),
PatchLevel 0
appears to have a bug in handling boxes. The ...
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Convert between string and expression representation of boxes
Boxes may be represented as expressions or as strings. How can I convert between the two forms? In particular, how can I convert from the string representation to the expression representation?
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Why does Parenthesize add parentheses here?
I've been playing around with the Notation` package and box forms for some custom notation recently. I discovered a nifty function named ...
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Unknown Box Name (ToBoxes) Error
I'm getting the following error in Mathematica
What is going on? How do I avoid such an error?
In order to roughly understand how I'm getting this error, here is a bit of context:
I'm using ...
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How to do indentation of nesting of Associations, Lists and other heads?
I was looking at the presentation about Wolfram's Symbolic ERP Project and in this video, they had functions to do nice indentation of nested Associations, ...
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How do Mathematica processes DynamicBox? [closed]
I've heard that Mathematica uses a session ad hoc to process DynamicBox, but I don't know any detail. I am using DynamicBox in ...
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Quick way to preview and tweak styles?
I find the old stylesheet UI clunky and hard to use:
FrontEndExecute @ FrontEndToken @ "EditStyleDefinitions"
There's also the clunky style previewer as well:
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How can I programmatically extract the text content from a Notebook's cell definition? [duplicate]
Given the Notebook cell definition below from the Wolfram Function Repository as an example:
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How define boxes to avoid parenthesis
The following definition for boxes in TraditionalForm formats as $\{a,b\}\{c,d\}$ (for simplicty, it matches only if the arguments literally are ...
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Updating a Dynamic variable based on another variable's change
In a dynamic interface, I am using a custom replacement for InputField that tracks two things separately:
The value of the variable that is input.
The boxes that ...
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How to generate a list (or even a sequence or a string) containing {x[1]==0&&x[2]==0&&…&&x[10]==0?
I need to solve a bunch of systems of n equations in n unknowns where n varies. I can do ...
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InterpretationBox problem with symbolic expressions
Related to this question,
Why does this InterpretationBox construct work when x, y are ...
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How to make version 12 print Root objects to screen normally as in earlier versions?
From clean kernel, when typing
result = Reduce[2 d^2 == -((2*(1 + d) + ((4 d^3)/(1 - d)))*(d - 1)),d]
Here what version 12 displays on the screen, compared to ...
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Setting Editable and Selectable False within Notation
Using the Notation package, I have a custom notation defined for chemical reactions. A minimal example is below (I will explain the commented-out part in a moment):
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SubsuperscriptBox and SuperStar
I have a notational reason (using the Notations package) to have some symbols display as C*60 (with the 60 lined up under the *). Internally, this is represented in Mathematica as:
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Are there any good tutorials on Boxes?
I am fairly competent in Mathematica, but I admit that I am baffled by Boxes, both making boxes and converting boxes back into expressions. I want to educate myself,...
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How to build a TemplateBox with dynamic length GridBox?
I have created the following TemplateBox Rule.
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Show additional box border in 3D plot
How to best draw an additional box boder at {x, y, 0} as indicated by the red arrow below? PlotRange is ...
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How to make custom attached menubars? [duplicate]
I would like to understand how to build an attached menubar. For example, Image has the following bar - an attached cell that arises when clicked on:
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Using Symbolize to Convert Multiple Variables at Once
So, I have created a list of subscripted and overdotted variables that I would like to symbolize, so I run them through a for loop. Seems to me that this would work? Any help is appreciated.
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How to defer creating/displaying boxes in front end until requested?
If the size of an output expression is larger than threshold ByteCount, the front end will display an abbreviated version of it by producing an ...
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Why doesn't the low-level box representation of a graph with VertexLabels use GraphicsComplex?
Compare following two low-level box representations of a graph without VertexLabels and one with VertexLabels set to ...
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ToExpression and RowBox — orderings
With:
ToExpression[RowBox[{"c", ToBoxes[Plot[Sin[x], {x, -2, 2}]], "a"}]]
I get the three elements of the array, but with "a" and then "c" at the beginning. I ...
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TagBox + InterpretationBox vs ConvertTo/StandardForm
There appears to be a problem with a menu command Convert To / StandardForm (Crtl+Shift+N) with respect to InterpretationBox ...
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Make a custom object look like MatrixForm of a matrix?
Let's say I have a custom object that I denote
Obj[a,b,c,...]
There are always n^2 entries in the object for some integer <...
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How to prevent formatting as Mathematica code in inline cells?
We can start a new inline cell using Insert ā Typesetting ā Start Inline Cell. This is often used to insert mathematical formulae in text cells.
Instead, I want to use it to insert small bits of non-...
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How to display fractional expression like this?
For example:
The default output is
I want to the output display like
I noticed that FractionBoxOptions, but couldn't find a appropriate options.
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Correct 2D representation in a message string
Message knows how to convert an expression (taken as an argument) into a string before it is spliced into an actual message:
If I run the following in my terminal ...
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How to make TeXForm use TemplateBox to generate code?
If I define the TraditionalForm formatting of myFunction without TemplateBox, then
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Dynamically updated AccountingForm
Bug introduced in 10.4 or earlier and persisting through 11.1.1
CASE:3918306 confirmed
I freshly installed Wolfram Mathematica. I can't quite remember how to output a dynamically updated variable ...
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Is MakeBoxes applied recursively, or just at top level?
I ask because I'm trying to make Times[a, z^-1] //TraditionalForm display as $a z^{-1}$ rather than $a/z$. If I write
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MakeExpression can't deal with FE boxes riffled with whitespaces
Bug introduced in 8 or earlier and persisting through 12.0
CASE:3910218
When you input
{ 1 , 2 } (*spaces intended, retype them if you want to copy this*)
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Symbolize Does Not Work in `.m` Files or What?
I have a .nb (notebook) file which I should convert to a .m (mathematica package) file to run it remotely from command line of a ...
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How to hyperlink a plot output?
I would like to adapt the following instructions How to create a Hyperlink within the current Notebook? to have a hyperlink to an output of a simple plot such as
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Use of standard form in .wl package
In a .wl package, i use the package notation but it is presented as inputform and it is consequently not very easy to read.
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Custom MakeBoxes rule triggered in the Information of functions
Consider the following toy example:
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Is it possible to access FrontEnd's own conversion rules for boxes?
Before sending its output to the FrontEnd the Kernel converts it into boxes by applying MakeBoxes. But it is not the whole story. FrontEnd not just displays the box ...
